Long Island Couple Matched Together in Same Medical Residency Program

Match Day Significance

• 🎯 Today marks Match Day, a crucial milestone where future physicians learn about their residency positions.
• 💡 For one couple, Katie Goldrick and Tony Asfor, this day holds extra significance as they are the first from their medical school to match as a couple.

A Couple's Double Match

• 💖 Katie and Tony, who are engaged, learned they will both be starting their residency programs at Mount Sinai Morningside West.
• 💍 Tony recently proposed to Katie after receiving his Step 1 exam results, which he passed.
• 🏥 The couple, who will be studying anesthesiology and OBGYN respectively, expressed pure giddiness about their double match and the opportunity to continue their journey together in Manhattan.

NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine

• 🎓 The NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine is graduating 23 students on this Match Day.
• 🩺 This medical school is unique in the country for offering a 3-year, tuition-free medical degree focused on primary care.
• 🏥 Its mission is to address the national shortage of primary care doctors, emphasizing preventative care and wellness.

Individual Aspirations

• 🩺 Joseph Idoko has a lifelong dream of practicing internal medicine to help people feel better.
• 👩‍⚕️ Lily Drohan was inspired to pursue OBGYN by her mother's example, who is also an OBGYN.